This file contains three learning activities to reinforce your pronoun lesson. There is a memory/matching game, a board game for 2 players, and a lift the flap writing activity. Directions are included. Your students will have so much fun becoming "Pronoun Detectives".

READING STRATEGY MINI LESSONS:
Use these engaging, mini lessons for teaching reading strategies and watch reading come alive in your classroom! It is a fun way to engage students and teach reading using an interactive approach!
Your students will love being word detectives! Students read sentence

These editable Word Detective Badges and Certificates are an exciting tool to motivate your students during Reader’s Workshop as they decode unfamiliar words!There are two printing options for the badges: • You can either personalize the badges and type your Word Detective’s names on the badge.• You

Write the Room
53 pages of Write the Room Activities that can be used with a whole group or during stations or centers. Skill covered are:
*long and short vowels
*blends
*digraphs
*parts of speech nouns, verbs, and adjectives
*blank pages to use as needed

Teacher's College Reader's Workshop: Word Detectives Unit for Grade 1, this bundle includes sessions 11 through session 18. This is part of the "If/Then" series for TC, and is great for students who still need support in strategies to solve unknown or tricky words. I have added more turn and talks a

Help kids learn the different spelling patterns for the Long U sound with this fun word game. Simply cut out the word cards and place them in various locations in your classroom or school. Students walk around being "Word Detective Monkeys" and write down the word under the correct vowel combinatio

Bossy R: OR Sound: OR as in Horse! This unit is all about the /or/ sound. I have included many activities to teach the /or/ sound.
This unit includes:
or sound poster
or sound real/nonsense words activity
or sound build a word activities
or sound detective word cards
or sound word ladder activity
or

Click the PREVIEW button to get a peek at everything included in this packet!
This resource includes:
(1) Beginning Blends worksheet (color and BW) Look at the picture, circle the blend, write the blend to finish the word.
(1) Final Blends worksheet (color and BW) - Look at the picture, circle t

le Sound! This unit is all about the sound of le and it is filled with printables and hands on activities. This unit includes:
81/2 x 11 Poster
Split the Syllable Activity
le as in Bottle Word Cards
Build a Word Activity
Word Detective Cards
Making le Words Activity
le Word Ladder
le Book
Read-Buil

Word Detective activities are word-building and vocabulary activities. They are perfect for seatwork, literacy centers, and homework. Also grat to have on hand for fast finishers. Students cut apart letters at the bottom of the page to manipulate to build words. All letters are used to spell the

Do your students have trouble with the ar sound? If they do, this is the perfect packet for you. This packet includes a fun effective whole group activity to introduce the ar sound. It also includes:
a word sort game,
a build a word center activity
I have who has game
Ar Flip Book
Real or Nonsens

This download is a PDF slide show that accompanies Jack Hartmann's popular song "I'm a Word Detective." This show, when combined with his song, will help you reach your visual and auditory learners as they develop multiple strategies for figuring out new words when reading.
To use, connect your co

Do you have the Word Detective Reading Workshop unit from Lucy Calkins? Do you want some other choices for the Official Word Detective badges? This pack is for you!
Are your kiddos great word detectives? Do you want to make something they can wear to announce their detective skills? This pack i

This resource contains:
Beginning Diagraphs - Look at each picture. Circle the diagraph that matches the beginning of the word. Write the diagraph to finish the word. (color or B7W pics)
Final Diagraphs - Look at each picture. Circle the diagraph that matches the end of the word. Write the diagrap

This resourse includes printables and an activity for the following diphthongs: OO, OI, OY, OU, OW, AW. Click on the PREVIEW button get a peek of everything included!
(2) Spy the Diphthong wkshts - If the word has the same sound as BOOK color the hand lens yellow. If the word has the same sound as

Long Vowels: This is everything you need to teach long vowel a. It includes:
long a poster that shows ways to spell long a
word sort with response sheet
long a bingo
long a booklet
long a fluency strips
Go Fish Game
Real or Nonsense words
Making Words Activity
Build a word song and
Build a word cha

Be a Word Detective Short a, e, i, o, u CVC Words... Plus High Frequency Words First Grade (Revised 6/2017)
Using a magnifying glass, find the hidden short vowels CVC words (plus two HFW) in each page, write them down and color that part of the picture. There are 3 activity pages for each vowel,

Your students will master their sight words as they search for what they know! Sight Word Detectives are great for centers, table work or homework. Worksheets cover ALL Dolch Pre-Primer sight words, making for 40 worksheets in total in this download.
For worksheets, students find the sight word th

Help kids learn the different spelling patterns for the Long O sound with this fun word game. Simply cut out the word cards and place them in various locations in your classroom or school. Students walk around being "Word Detective Monkeys" and write down the word under the correct vowel combination

This BLENDS packet includes:
(1) Beginning Blends worksheet (color and BW) Look at the picture, circle the blend, write the blend to finish the word.
(1) Final Blends worksheet (color and BW) - Look at the picture, circle the blend, write the blend to finish the word.
(6) Spot the Beginning and

Help kids learn the different spelling patterns for the Long I sound with this fun word game. Simply cut out the word cards and place them in various locations in your classroom or school. Students walk around being "Word Detective Monkeys" and write down the word under the correct vowel combination